Can you kill monsters by swinging objects?

[Angerpull]

Whenever I get spotted I usually grab something and start running, if I feel like they're closing in I turn and peg them with it and then keep running. It stutters their footfalls for a brief moment, so I'd like to think I'm turning a profit on my efforts. I doubt there is a way to kill the monsters.

Good idea. But I do hope you know they become twice as fast if you hit them with something. Just to catch up to their previous range of you. They stop speeding when they are at the same length they were before they were "pegged".